Enable students to succeed in their exam with Russia in Revolution 18811924. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D3, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure higher grades.
Russia in Revolution, 18811924: From Autocracy to Dictatorship covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3 examination, including:
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1881
Including The Russian Empire: land and people; government
Chapter 2: CHALLENGES TO THE TSARIST STATE, 18811906
Including Alexander III and repression, 18811894; peasant Russia before 1905; industrial development; Sergei Witte; the growth of opposition to Tsarism; Socialist Revolutionaries; Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; 1905 revolution
Chapter 3: TSARISMS LAST CHANCE, 190617
Including Repression; reform; impact of war, 19141917; downfall of the Romanovs, February 1917
Chapter 4: FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917
Including The Provisional Government and its problems; Lenin and the April Theses; July Days and the Kornilov affair; Bolshevik seizure of power, October 1917
Chapter 5: THE BOLSHEVIK CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, 191824
Including The Bolsheviks in power, 191718; the Civil War; war communism and the NEP; politics and society in NEP Russia; Lenins Russia in 1924
Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS
Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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